If you shoot a gun and drop a bullet from the same height, which will land first??

[bsteinmetz6]

Taht may be the case....but i was more asking about your rocket comparison. How does a rocket launched parallel to the earth's surface (ie. it's thrusting force is parallel to gravity) create lift?

not a rocket scientist but somebody figured it out.my point was a bullet creates lift and just because something is on a dead even horizontal course it can still made possible to not be effected by gravity because it is creating the same amount of lift as the altitude it is losing to gravity.

[colt.45]

bump to educate the misc

[colt.45]

This is the famous double slit experiment

ur mind masy be blown

http://www.videosift.com/video/Quant...mazing-results

[blancmange]

holy ****, some of you are literally the stupidiest people I've ever encountered

[ZombieClive]

removing factors like lift and the curve of the earth dropping a couple feet, they land at the same time. gravity acts unilaterally, the drop of the bullet isnt affected by the horizonal movement

[Steak_n_Taters]

So the dropped bullet would land first.

This occurs because the bore axis is not aligned with the sight axis or the horizontal. This imparts a slightly positive initial y velocity.

We are talking about the bore axis being aligned with the horizontal.

the fired bullet has farther to fall because the bullet rises slightly thanks to rifling/wind resistance. I have heard this is a myth but its what the military teaches and the graph is from a DoD website.

It rises because the bore axis is angled up from the horizontal.

imagine shot from one airplane at another they are horizontal for all intensive purposes, if it needs to rise it adjusts the fin/power ration to lift. my point being is that a bullet creates some of it own lift

Lift is created by pressure differentials. Assuming a constant atmosphere the total pressure differential around a perfectly round bullet is zero in the y-z plane (assuming y axis is up down, x axis is left right, and z axis is in and out of the page, and the bullet is being fired in the positive x direction), all pressures would cancel, and thus no lift is created by the bullet in an ideal environment (ignoring ground effect).